Yep. There was no way they could have kept their computers switched on without a bailout.

Nope. If the bank collapses, cancel all the mortgages/loans/credit card debt.

Shareholders would be pissed, some people get a windfall and that's not fair on the others .... but imagine what it would do for the economy - probably far more good than any bank bailout and shareholders would be more likely to vote for a CEO with his feet on the ground instead of the one with the best hair.

Even if true, how about we give those trillions directly to the people and/or cancel their mortgages instead of propping up the system that caused the problem.

I bet a bank facing the loss of all its mortgages would be a damn sight more careful with their money than one that isn't.

The government also needs to step in every time they see a lot of money being magicked out of thin air by people near the bottom of the food chain (eg. the dotcom bubble, housing bubble, etc.). That never leads to anything other than collapse, a lot of rich people getting richer and the poor people picking up the tab.

Yeah, telling CEOs they still get golden parachutes if they drive huge corporations to ruin is a much better plan for the long term.

My idea to 'improve the system' is to only bail them out if the entire board of directors agrees to turn over all their assets to the taxpayer and/or go to jail.

LOL! Cry me a river...

That's a couple of trips to the cinema. A tank of gas.

Try Intel instead of OCZ.

Not all SSD manufacturers feel they have to put out a new controller every three weeks just to keep themselves in the headlines.

They don't last forever but this one's been going quite a while now. No need to hoard, though, unless Unicomp goes out of business.

I think the phrase "1.0 G in any given direction" contains the clue...

Given the number of hours things like the F22 have managed to stay airworthy I'd say simulators were the future, yes.

Did you, ummmm, try reading the article?

Radical, I know...

The repercussions are that they know you didn't just laugh and throw it in the bin.

This moves you along to phase 2.

Can it write 200Mb/sec...?

It is a particularly fast thumbdrive...

I get the feeling Google paid this because the revenue from the adverts was more than 60m...not because the newspapers "won" in court.

There's also this thing called "robots.txt"...